@bpasero what do you mean by activate group?
I see exactly the same behavior in open editors and explorer on mac with latest out of source. That is file is opened as preview and the focus is passed to the file.

@isidorn this:

Just compare how "Open to Side" works in Explorer vs Open Editors when invoked via Ctrl+Enter

I do not see any behavior difference between open editors and explorer. Can you please elaborate what are you trying to say?
That the open editors should not activate the group?

Keep in mind that in the explorer I have no notion of groups.

Needs more thinking, the activate group call is there for a reason because if you click on an editor in the "open editors" view which is already opened, nothing would happen, so we need to manually activate the group the editor is in.

@bpasero Steps to verify?

@aeschli trigger "Open to Side" via keybinding (Ctrl+Enter) and verify that the editor that opens is not getting activated (same as explorer).

I don't see any difference between pressing Ctrl-Enter on a file in open editors or explorer. However @bpasero it seems the current behavior is exactly the reverse of what you want?

• Open foo.ts
• Focus on foo.ts in either Open Editor or Explorer
• Ctrl-Enter
• foo.ts is open in editor group 2 and given focus (I guess that's what you meant by "activate"?)

@octref @aeschli sorry, got confused. This is actually about Alt-click to open to side, it should not activate.